The largest gathering of African movements, activities, and Human Rights defenders, dubbed “All-African Movement Assembly (AAMA)” is holding its second assembly in Accra from the 29th of August to the 31st of this year.
The AAMA membership visited the Central Region and toured the Cape Coast Castle, as part of activities lined up for the event.
According to the leadership of the AAMA, members toured the Cape Coast Castle to get first-hand and in-depth information on the ordeals of African slaves in the colonial era, and thus, help the present generation better understand how to confront their past and march forward into the future.
The AAMA membership numbering about 300 visited places in the castle like the male and female dungeons, condemned cells, churches, doors of no return, and many other interesting places.
Madam Coumba Toure, an Ambassador of the African Rising in Senegal and Mali, who doubles as a member of AAMA, disclosed that between 800 and 40 thousand Africans are direct and indirect members of the AAMA. The movement, she said, enables all Africans to stand in solidarity with the oppression that the people of Tunisia, Congo, South Africa, and the Gambia are going through.
She noted that Ghana’s Assembly which follows the maiden one held in Tunisia two years ago is to enable all Africans to live in peace and dignity.
She was sad to note that the challenges that Africans are going through now can partly be attributed to how the slave trade scattered the black race across the globe and also made Africans feel inferior to the Europeans.
The Regional Organizer for East African Engagement, Anne Rose Osamba, noted that her emotion after visiting places in the castle like the male and female dungeons, condemned cell, and made her conclude that Europeans who used to be colonial masters in Africa only visited the continent just to exploit the continent.
She pleaded with African youth to unite and shun all deeds that amount to mental slavery. This alone, she stressed will help realize the desire of the AAMA to accomplish unity, justice, peace, and dignity.
